Risk Assessment

The risk assessment was carried out prior to undertaking the filming process, however due to technical difficulties uploading onto the blog it had to be uploaded at a later date than planned.

Reasons for the alterations to the storyboard from final video.

In regards to our animatic we made drastic variations to the order/scenes which we had collectively decided upon as a group. This was because we decided on more suitable alternatives for the video. Some have scenes we have originally storyboarded for e.g. the hairdressers which was not to a high enough standard of filming, this was due to the camera operator being present within the shot along with equipment e.g. tripods. This was because the mise-en scene of the establishment had lots of mirrors and as a result this proved hard when filming the scene. Therefore we as a group made the decision to cut the scene and replace it with another. Some other scenes we decided upon were also cut this was due to their being more suitable alternatives than originally planned for. This will result in there being a change from our storyboard to our final music video.

The reason the storyboard and animatic were uploaded later was due to experiencing technical difficulties. It had been completed before all other work e.g. digi-pak etc was created.

Animatic

Storyboard

Digipak Cover - Latest Draft

After creating a template that is to the correct scale of a digipak - we are able to work with actual sizes; letting us know what works and what doesnt.

We spent longer creating a front cover that would meet as many of the conventions that we wanted.

The lights in the background are supposed to connote dancing, discos and up-tempo music - perhaps the business of lots of people on a dancefloor. (as many people are shown in our music video)
The colours are bright, as we wanted, and again are used to represent the fast music. It was also supposed to give the cover a crazy, exciting look....

The bold font is used to make the artist name stand out. This anchors the close up of the 'singer' - allowing the audience to easily link the two.

The name of the album in this version of the digipak is ''footloose''. Suggesting that the song is the main or most popular song on the album tracklist - which is a typical convention often used by many artists.

Digipak Drafts and Ideas...

For our digipak, we wanted it to represent the song and its genre - pop. The track we are using (footloose) is a very up-beat song, and because our narrative involves dancing we thought the digipak cover should have connotations of dancing, discos etc.

We tried a few ideas - using bright colours.


As these are only drafts, (to see if the colours work), the album name has not been decided. We chose 'pulse' because it represents dancing, movement etc.

The colours we chose are very bold and bright, so that the cover works with the genre of music.

Digipak research 2

I have done some more research on digipaks, and discovered that we need to design a cover the size of 139.5mm x 6mmx 125.5mm.

There is more information here.